Noemí Martínez

Restaurant floor manager and sommelier at Trigo* (Valladolid, Spain)

Sommelier and floor manager Noemí Martínez and chef Víctor Martín make up a perfect twosome running Trigo.

Noemí Martínez is sommelier, owner and manager of Trigo in Valladolid, where she also heads up and manages the restaurant floor. A member of the Valladolid Sommeliers' Association, from 2007 to the present day she has been involved in a large number of courses and professional wine-tasting events such as 'Iberwine’ ‘Vinoble’, ‘Jerez de la Frontera’, ‘Douro’ and Madrid's "Salón del Champagne".

She was also a finalist in the ‘Golden Nose’ competition (2012-2019), and took the 2018 Gastronomy Academy award for Best Sommelier in Castilla y León, and the Best Sommelier Prize in the 2019 Verema Awards. She is a member of the ‘Sherry Women’ group, and an expert on a number of European wineries.